The Golden Land

The tunes in the musical ‘The Golden Land’ are ‘living documents of Jewish life in America.’

10/16/2012

Ted Merwin

Special to the Jewish Week

Of all the enticing myths about America that drove Eastern European Jews to uproot themselves and immigrate to these shores, perhaps the most seductive was that the streets were paved with gold. Nor was it just the streets — America itself was known as the “goldene medina.”